x86

Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux

Signs of the times: Linux's compatibility improves, while x86-32 recedes from Apple

OSes04 Dec 2023 | 27

BLOODALCHEMY provides backdoor to southeast Asian nations' secrets

Sophisticated malware devs believed to be behind latest addition to toolset of China-aligned attackers

Research16 Oct 2023 | 1

Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips

Some big changes are afoot

Systems26 Jul 2023 | 47

Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside

Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy

Personal Tech09 Jun 2023 | 16

Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance

VSI releases OpenVMS 9.2-1 and x86 hobby licenses

Applications13 Apr 2023 | 102

openSUSE finds an elegant solution to x86-64 version support

Updated Piggybacking on the hwcaps tunable in glibc, it's shipping platform-optimized libraries

OSes09 Mar 2023 | 7

Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel

Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around

Systems16 Feb 2023 | 25

AMD follows Intel's lead with alphanumeric soup of new Ryzens

Analysis New high-end Ryzen laptop CPUs? Huzzah! Now what's the number again?

Systems05 Jan 2023 | 10

Intel reminds everyone it's still cooking away on more PC processors

Better late than never to catch up with AMD's Ryzen star

Systems08 Dec 2022 | 9

openSUSE makes baseline CPU requirements a little friendlier than feared

Tumbleweed rolling-release distro to need v2 of x86-64 – and drop x86-32 edition

OSes30 Nov 2022 | 20

Intel: The economy is bad right now, but we still need more fabs

x86 giant says it will tweak spending for Ohio, Germany plants based on ‘market needs’

Systems29 Nov 2022 | 5

Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit

Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?

Systems21 Nov 2022 | 17

AMD grows Epyc datacenter share, loses to Intel generally

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine

Systems10 Nov 2022 | 5

Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter

PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months

On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |

Linus Torvalds suggests the 80486 architecture belongs in a museum, not the Linux kernel

Ancient hardware deserves ancient kernels, but cannot justify consuming developers' valuable time

Systems25 Oct 2022 | 162

Juno offering Linux-powered tablet PC for pre-order

The company already sells penguin-infested laptops and desktops, but an x86 Linux fondleslab is new

Personal Tech17 Oct 2022 | 19

Intel's 13th-gen CPUs are hot, hungry, loaded with cores

X86 giant's 24-core i9 doubles as a space heater

Systems27 Sep 2022 | 47

Red Hat OpenShift adds heterogenous clusters mixing x86, Arm

Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures

Software19 Aug 2022 |

AMD to end Threadripper Pro 5000 drought for non-Lenovo PCs

As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips

Personal Tech20 Jun 2022 | 18

Intel says Sapphire Rapids CPU delay will help AMD catch up

Our window to have leading server chips again is narrowing, exec admits

Systems08 Jun 2022 | 6

Nvidia taps Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU for Hopper-powered DGX H100

A win against AMD as a much bigger war over AI compute plays out

AI + ML07 Jun 2022 |

How Intel can use its Granulate acquisition to maintain cloud footprint

Analysis Software-tuning suite could be used to show where and how Xeon trumps rivals, if customers can believe it

Applications25 May 2022 | 1

Export bans prompt Russia to use Chinese x86 CPU replacement

With few options, Russia will look to half-fast chips from Chinese maker

Systems19 May 2022 | 87

AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

Guess you could call this Mercury Ryzen

Systems13 May 2022 | 17

Intel puts ‘desktop-caliber’ CPUs in laptops with 12th-gen Core HX

Intel Vision And puts the usual claims of world-beating performance in its marketing

Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 7

OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2

One of the most battle-tested OSes out there hits commodity kit, but does anyone still care?

OSes10 May 2022 | 127

Intel says costly 10nm ramp will counter PC slowdown

Analysis China lockdowns, Apple's homegrown silicon, and more give x86 giant a headache – with an aspirin in reach

Systems29 Apr 2022 | 8

Intel R&D campus key to comeback plan gets $3b boost

Chip giant also reveals next-gen 18A process months ahead of schedule

Systems11 Apr 2022 | 1

Russia cobbles together supercomputing platform to wean off foreign suppliers

New RSK Tornado system will help Russia port HPC apps to homegrown CPUs

HPC11 Apr 2022 | 24

Intel counters AMD’s big-cache PC chip with 5.5GHz 16-core rival

CPU clock versus cache

Personal Tech28 Mar 2022 | 55

AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s

Refreshed third-gen 'Milan-X' sports 3D vertical L3 memory

Systems21 Mar 2022 | 24

Lenovo's data center business finally makes a profit

Black ink has proven elusive since 2014 acquisition of IBM's x86 server business

On-Prem23 Feb 2022 | 2

Intel's plan to license x86 cores for chips with Arm, RISC-V and more inside

Analysis If you've wanted to create your own specialized Xeon, now's your chance

On-Prem14 Feb 2022 | 32

Into x86 servers? Apple seeks 'upbeat and hard-working' hardware engineer

Strictly Intel and AMD for these hyperscale systems

Systems07 Feb 2022 | 16

Apple Mac sales break records amid ex-86-odus to Arm-compatible M1 silicon

Cook & Co made $384M profit per day during latest quarter

Personal Tech28 Jan 2022 | 64

AMD claims up to 24 hours of laptop battery life with its latest Ryzen 6000 silicon

Lisa Su tells CES her biz has cracked the daily power cord issue

Personal Tech04 Jan 2022 | 17

RISC-V CTO: We won't dictate chip design like Arm and x86

Interview Mark Himelstein talks about the open ISA's future and challenges

On-Prem04 Jan 2022 | 63

AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language

Assemblers unite

Applications30 Nov 2021 | 15

Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market

What a difference a year makes?

Personal Tech12 Nov 2021 | 93

Scaleway disarms its ARM64 cloud, cites unreliable hardware as the reason

So why not just buy new servers? That’s where this gets curly

SaaS21 Apr 2020 | 11

Need 32-bit Linux to run past 2038? When version 5.6 of the kernel pops, you're in for a treat

I've been to the year 3000... Not much has changed, but they're still patching Linux

OSes30 Jan 2020 | 90

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5, update 2 plops from Oracle's Linux-shaped orifice

Bruce Willis thankfully not involved

OSes04 Jun 2019 | 6

Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium

Happy-clappy club wants to 'democratize' supercomputing

HPC27 Feb 2019 | 2

Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai

Hadoop YARN is the attack vector, so lock it away

OSes22 Nov 2018 | 14

WD to move all its stuff to RISC-V processors, build some kind of super data-wrangling stack

Analysis Details are thin, but it looks like disks could help crunch data out on the edge

Storage01 Dec 2017 | 12

Intel to Qualcomm and Microsoft: Nice x86 emulation you've got there, shame if it got sued into oblivion

Chipzilla sends not-so-subtle threat to ARM crew

OSes09 Jun 2017 | 91

Raspberry Pi Foundation releases operating system for PCs, Macs

Debian-derived PIXEL brings Pi experience to x86s, as Foundation chases 'best desktop environment, period'

Software22 Dec 2016 | 127

What can we use to hit Intel between the eyes, thinks Qualcomm – a 10nm ARM server chip

Centriq 2400 now sampling, due to beat Chipzilla by a year

Systems07 Dec 2016 | 38

Emulating x86: Microsoft builds granny flat into Windows 10

Park your legacy apps here, they'll feel right at home

OSes22 Nov 2016 | 109

Google: We look forward to running non-Intel processors in our cloud

OK, so someone's angling for a discount

SaaS15 Oct 2016 | 46

VMS will be ready to run on x86 in 2019!

Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen!

Software13 Oct 2016 | 67

Intel's makeshift Kaby Lake Cores hope to lure punters from tired PCs

Seventh-generation processors with DRM-friendly UHD engine will appear from next month

Personal Tech30 Aug 2016 | 48

Official: AMD now stands for Avoiding Miserable Death

Officially on El Reg, that is – Mini-chipzilla in the black after strong console chip sales

On-Prem21 Jul 2016 | 16

Lenovo HPC bounces back after IBM spinoff

High performance biz has grown... and customers.. well, they're a little different

Channel29 Jun 2016 | 1

Intel's Knights Landing: Fresh x86 Xeon Phi lineup for HPC and AI

Machine learning folk, you want to sit up and pay attention here

HPC21 Jun 2016 |

ioSafe releases x86 server for the 'we don't have a geek with a screwdriver' crowd

Review Fireproof, waterproof... open to new ideas

Systems03 Feb 2016 | 20